Down and Dirty Blog Tour Part NINE! is now Live!

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Part Nine is up at Sinfully Sexy Books!

Giveaways at every stop! Free rhino with every purchase (results may vary)

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Dec 30 to Jan 8

Dec 30 Part One — 3Chicks after dark
Dec 31 Part Two — Boy Meets Boy Reviews
Jan 1 Part Three — Joyfully Jay
Jan 2 Part Four — LoveBytes
Part Five — On Top Down Under
Jan 3 Part Six — Prism Alliance
Jan 4 Part Seven — It’s About The Book
Part Eight — The Blogger Girls
Jan 5 Part Nine — Sinfully Sexy
Jan 6 Part Ten — NDulgent Bloggers
Jan 7 Part Eleven — The Novel Approach
Jan 8 Part Twelve — Under the Covers Blog

Down_and_Dirty_RhysFord_smallDown and Dirty

From the moment former LAPD detective Bobby Dawson spots Ichiro Tokugawa, he knows the man is trouble. And not just because the much younger Japanese inker is hot, complicated, and pushes every one of Bobby’s buttons. No, Ichi is trouble because he’s Cole McGinnis’s younger brother and off-limits in every possible way. And Bobby knows that even before Cole threatens to kill him for looking Ichi’s way. But despite his gut telling him Ichi is bad news, Bobby can’t stop looking… or wanting.

Ichi was never one to play by the rules. Growing up in Japan as his father’s heir, he’d been bound by every rule imaginable until he had enough and walked away from everything to become his own man. Los Angeles was supposed to be a brief pitstop before he moved on, but after connecting with his American half-brothers, it looks like a good city to call home for a while—if it weren’t for Bobby Dawson.

Bobby is definitely a love-them-and-leave-them type, a philosophy Ichi whole-heartedly agrees with. Family was as much of a relationship as Ichi was looking for, but something about the gruff and handsome Bobby Dawson that makes Ichi want more.

Much, much more.

Purchase Down and Dirty at Dreamspinner Press or Amazon

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Part EIGHT is now Live!

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Part Eight is up at The Blogger Girls!

Giveaways at every stop! Free rhino with every purchase (results may vary)

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Dec 30 to Jan 8

Dec 30 Part One — 3Chicks after dark
Dec 31 Part Two — Boy Meets Boy Reviews
Jan 1 Part Three — Joyfully Jay
Jan 2 Part Four — LoveBytes
Part Five — On Top Down Under
Jan 3 Part Six — Prism Alliance
Jan 4 Part Seven — It’s About The Book
Part Eight — The Blogger Girls
Jan 5 Part Nine — Sinfully Sexy
Jan 6 Part Ten — NDulgent Bloggers
Jan 7 Part Eleven — The Novel Approach
Jan 8 Part Twelve — Under the Covers Blog

Down_and_Dirty_RhysFord_smallDown and Dirty

From the moment former LAPD detective Bobby Dawson spots Ichiro Tokugawa, he knows the man is trouble. And not just because the much younger Japanese inker is hot, complicated, and pushes every one of Bobby’s buttons. No, Ichi is trouble because he’s Cole McGinnis’s younger brother and off-limits in every possible way. And Bobby knows that even before Cole threatens to kill him for looking Ichi’s way. But despite his gut telling him Ichi is bad news, Bobby can’t stop looking… or wanting.

Ichi was never one to play by the rules. Growing up in Japan as his father’s heir, he’d been bound by every rule imaginable until he had enough and walked away from everything to become his own man. Los Angeles was supposed to be a brief pitstop before he moved on, but after connecting with his American half-brothers, it looks like a good city to call home for a while—if it weren’t for Bobby Dawson.

Bobby is definitely a love-them-and-leave-them type, a philosophy Ichi whole-heartedly agrees with. Family was as much of a relationship as Ichi was looking for, but something about the gruff and handsome Bobby Dawson that makes Ichi want more.

Much, much more.

Purchase Down and Dirty at Dreamspinner Press or Amazon

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Part Seven is now Live!

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Part Seven is up at It’s About The Book.

I totally biffed yesterday’s post title… and link title. Prism had six. What the hell was I thinking? Can I use the I was head down in Sloe Ride?

Giveaways at every stop! Kinda sounds like a used car salesman, right? Come on down, balloons for the kids. Clowns! Dangerous Fire things!

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Dec 30 to Jan 8

Dec 30 Part One — 3Chicks after dark
Dec 31 Part Two — Boy Meets Boy Reviews
Jan 1 Part Three — Joyfully Jay
Jan 2 Part Four — LoveBytes
Part Five — On Top Down Under
Jan 3 Part Six — Prism Alliance
Jan 4 Part Seven — It’s About The Book
Part Eight — The Blogger Girls
Jan 5 Part Nine — Sinfully Sexy
Jan 6 Part Ten — NDulgent Bloggers
Jan 7 Part Eleven — The Novel Approach
Jan 8 Part Twelve — Under the Covers Blog

Down_and_Dirty_RhysFord_smallDown and Dirty

From the moment former LAPD detective Bobby Dawson spots Ichiro Tokugawa, he knows the man is trouble. And not just because the much younger Japanese inker is hot, complicated, and pushes every one of Bobby’s buttons. No, Ichi is trouble because he’s Cole McGinnis’s younger brother and off-limits in every possible way. And Bobby knows that even before Cole threatens to kill him for looking Ichi’s way. But despite his gut telling him Ichi is bad news, Bobby can’t stop looking… or wanting.

Ichi was never one to play by the rules. Growing up in Japan as his father’s heir, he’d been bound by every rule imaginable until he had enough and walked away from everything to become his own man. Los Angeles was supposed to be a brief pitstop before he moved on, but after connecting with his American half-brothers, it looks like a good city to call home for a while—if it weren’t for Bobby Dawson.

Bobby is definitely a love-them-and-leave-them type, a philosophy Ichi whole-heartedly agrees with. Family was as much of a relationship as Ichi was looking for, but something about the gruff and handsome Bobby Dawson that makes Ichi want more.

Much, much more.

Purchase Down and Dirty at Dreamspinner Press or Amazon

Rhys Ford Interview and Giveaway at TTC Books And More

The lovely Tammy allows me to ramble on a bit over at TTC AND do a giveaway! Go enter to win. Drop her a note and follow the blog! *grins*

http://www.ttcbooksandmore.com/2015/01/down-and-dirty-by-rhys-ford-author.html

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Part Six is now Live!

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Part Six is up at Prism Book Alliance! (totally biffed this posting on my part. sheesh.)

Giveaways at every stop! Kinda sounds like a used car salesman, right? Come on down, balloons for the kids. Clowns! Dangerous Fire things!

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Dec 30 to Jan 8

Dec 30 Part One — 3Chicks after dark
Dec 31 Part Two — Boy Meets Boy Reviews
Jan 1 Part Three — Joyfully Jay
Jan 2 Part Four — LoveBytes
Part Five — On Top Down Under
Jan 3 Part Six — Prism Alliance
Jan 4 Part Seven — It’s About The Book
Part Eight — The Blogger Girls
Jan 5 Part Nine — Sinfully Sexy
Jan 6 Part Ten — NDulgent Bloggers
Jan 7 Part Eleven — The Novel Approach
Jan 8 Part Twelve — Under the Covers Blog

Down_and_Dirty_RhysFord_smallDown and Dirty

From the moment former LAPD detective Bobby Dawson spots Ichiro Tokugawa, he knows the man is trouble. And not just because the much younger Japanese inker is hot, complicated, and pushes every one of Bobby’s buttons. No, Ichi is trouble because he’s Cole McGinnis’s younger brother and off-limits in every possible way. And Bobby knows that even before Cole threatens to kill him for looking Ichi’s way. But despite his gut telling him Ichi is bad news, Bobby can’t stop looking… or wanting.

Ichi was never one to play by the rules. Growing up in Japan as his father’s heir, he’d been bound by every rule imaginable until he had enough and walked away from everything to become his own man. Los Angeles was supposed to be a brief pitstop before he moved on, but after connecting with his American half-brothers, it looks like a good city to call home for a while—if it weren’t for Bobby Dawson.

Bobby is definitely a love-them-and-leave-them type, a philosophy Ichi whole-heartedly agrees with. Family was as much of a relationship as Ichi was looking for, but something about the gruff and handsome Bobby Dawson that makes Ichi want more.

Much, much more.

Purchase Down and Dirty at Dreamspinner Press or Amazon

Down and Dirty Blog Tour: Dirty Minds Part 4 and 5 are up!

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Part Four is up at LoveBytes

AND Part Five is up at On Top Down Under

Giveaways at every stop! Kinda sounds like a used car salesman, right? Come on down, balloons for the kids. Clowns! Dangerous Fire things!

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Dec 30 to Jan 8

Dec 30 Part One — 3Chicks after dark
Dec 31 Part Two — Boy Meets Boy Reviews
Jan 1 Part Three — Joyfully Jay
Jan 2 Part Four — LoveBytes
Part Five — On Top Down Under
Jan 3 Part Six — Prism Alliance
Jan 4 Part Seven — It’s About The Book
Part Eight — The Blogger Girls
Jan 5 Part Nine — Sinfully Sexy
Jan 6 Part Ten — NDulgent Bloggers
Jan 7 Part Eleven — The Novel Approach
Jan 8 Part Twelve — Under the Covers Blog

 

Down_and_Dirty_RhysFord_smallDown and Dirty

From the moment former LAPD detective Bobby Dawson spots Ichiro Tokugawa, he knows the man is trouble. And not just because the much younger Japanese inker is hot, complicated, and pushes every one of Bobby’s buttons. No, Ichi is trouble because he’s Cole McGinnis’s younger brother and off-limits in every possible way. And Bobby knows that even before Cole threatens to kill him for looking Ichi’s way. But despite his gut telling him Ichi is bad news, Bobby can’t stop looking… or wanting.

Ichi was never one to play by the rules. Growing up in Japan as his father’s heir, he’d been bound by every rule imaginable until he had enough and walked away from everything to become his own man. Los Angeles was supposed to be a brief pitstop before he moved on, but after connecting with his American half-brothers, it looks like a good city to call home for a while—if it weren’t for Bobby Dawson.

Bobby is definitely a love-them-and-leave-them type, a philosophy Ichi whole-heartedly agrees with. Family was as much of a relationship as Ichi was looking for, but something about the gruff and handsome Bobby Dawson that makes Ichi want more.

Much, much more.

Purchase Down and Dirty at Dreamspinner Press or Amazon

Snippet from Down and Dirty.

Down_and_Dirty_RhysFord_small“Yeah, be honest.” He was going to throw it out there. Ichi had nothing to lose and Cole—it wasn’t like Cole had to find out he’d teased Bobby before the man tossed him out on his skinny ass. “Why would you change now? You think there’s something between us? Like what?”

“You know there is. And it gets me to wondering a few things sometimes.”

“More things? Other than this one thing?” Ichi dropped his hands to his thighs, waiting for Bobby to make the next move. “Like what exactly?”

“Like whether or not you want to be bent over a bed or lying on it,” Bobby purred as he tilted his head back. “You know, when I fuck you.”

There was no mistaking the challenge in the man’s darkening eyes or the cocky set of his grin as he twisted sideways to stare at Ichi over the back of the couch. It was a game Ichi knew well—one he’d played a thousand times before—the shoving out of a chest and the tossing of salt into a dohyō. It was a look he’d gotten right before he suckled down the gummy, hairy insides of a fertilized duck egg and shouted in triumph when he extracted the beak before he swallowed it. And it was a smile much like the one he’d gotten before he’d shot across a bed of salt flats in a broke-assed Harley held together with spit and a prayer.

Folding his arms across the back of the couch, Ichiro leaned in and gave Bobby a cocky smile of his own, tilting his head as he drawled slowly, “What makes you think you’re the one who’s going to be doing the fucking?”

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Part THREE is now Live!

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Part Three is up at Joyfully Jay! (I cannot count how many times my fingers just type in Jae. Seriously. Totally on me.)

Giveaways at every stop! Kinda sounds like a used car salesman, right? Come on down, balloons for the kids. Clowns! Dangerous Fire things!

Down and Dirty Blog Tour Dec 30 to Jan 8
Dec 30     Part One — 3Chicks after dark

Dec 31      Part Two — Boy Meets Boy Reviews

Jan 1         Part Three — Joyfully Jay

Jan 2         Part Four — LoveBytes
Part Five — On Top Down Under

Jan 3         Part Six — Prism Alliance

Jan 4         Part Seven — It’s About The Book
                   Part Eight — The Blogger Girls

Jan 5         Part Nine — Sinfully Sexy

Jan 6         Part Ten — NDulgent Bloggers

Jan 7         Part Eleven — The Novel Approach

Jan 8         Part Twelve — Under the Covers Blog

 

Down_and_Dirty_RhysFord_smallDown and Dirty

From the moment former LAPD detective Bobby Dawson spots Ichiro Tokugawa, he knows the man is trouble. And not just because the much younger Japanese inker is hot, complicated, and pushes every one of Bobby’s buttons. No, Ichi is trouble because he’s Cole McGinnis’s younger brother and off-limits in every possible way. And Bobby knows that even before Cole threatens to kill him for looking Ichi’s way. But despite his gut telling him Ichi is bad news, Bobby can’t stop looking… or wanting.

Ichi was never one to play by the rules. Growing up in Japan as his father’s heir, he’d been bound by every rule imaginable until he had enough and walked away from everything to become his own man. Los Angeles was supposed to be a brief pitstop before he moved on, but after connecting with his American half-brothers, it looks like a good city to call home for a while—if it weren’t for Bobby Dawson.

Bobby is definitely a love-them-and-leave-them type, a philosophy Ichi whole-heartedly agrees with. Family was as much of a relationship as Ichi was looking for, but something about the gruff and handsome Bobby Dawson that makes Ichi want more.

Much, much more.

Purchase Down and Dirty at Dreamspinner Press or Amazon

Z.A. Maxfield’s Pot Luck Dinner Blog Hop

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Z.A. Maxfield’s Pot Luck Dinner

Z.A. Maxfield has organized a Pot Luck Dinner via Blog Hop. Readers have to comment on every “dish” post in order to be entered in the Grand Prize. Head over to http://zamaxfield.com/new-years-eve-progressive-dinner/ to find the master list and hit up all the posts. ZAM’s beloved minion William will check the list twice to make sure commenters participated fully and then, they’ll choose and

Contest rules and stuff:
You can “choose your own dinner adventure” from appetizers, soup, salad, main dish and dessert, but those of you who visit and comment at each and every blog will be entered into a drawing for one of three (3) $35.00 gift cards to the venue of your choice: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or All Romance Ebooks.

Plus, some individual authors (like, ahem, me, ZAM) might include a private drawing for those people who stop by. So read, drink and be merry! Happy New Year from all of us, at the M/M Writers’ Buffet! Winner will be announced on Epiphany, Jan. 6, 2015 at ZAM’s blog

Remember, for full blog links visit http://zamaxfield.com/new-years-eve-progressive-dinner/

Rhys Ford Giveaway
That being said… we’re having a GIVEAWAY right here! Comment below with the first dish YOU remember making by yourself (successful or no) and be entered to win… a surprise package of seasonings, sauces and treats specially selected by yours truly. The Pot Luck Giveaway on THIS blog will end Jan 6. Winner will be chosen randomly.

For my dish, I am suggesting you try vinha d’alhos (pronounced vin-GRAH doish by my relatives). It means meat with wine and garlic. It’s kind of like a Portuguese adobo.

thumb_600VINHA D’ALHOS

Ingredients:

  • 3 lb boneless pork
  • 1 1/2 cups vinegar
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 6 Hawaiian red peppers, seeded and chopped
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 6 whole cloves
  • 1/4 teaspoon thyme
  • 1/8 teaspoon sage
  • 2 tablespoons salad oil

Instructions
Cut pork into 2 X 1 1/2-inch pieces. Combine vinegar, garlic, red pepper, bay leaf, salt, cloves, thyme and sage; pour over pork and let stand overnight in refrigerator.

Cook pork in marinate for 20 minutes; drain. Heat oil in skillet; add pork and saute slowly for 10 to 15 minutes until browned.

Makes 6 servings. Serve over rice.